Comments: Would be nice if the box toppers were actually exciting to open. I like the first pack a lot, with value actually coming in the non-autos (the autos are scary bad). It's sort of what I imagined opening this product would be like, but on a pack by pack basis rather than once in a long while.
Box #8, pack #2

Comments: Well, there you go. 44 packs into a 48 pack break and the first Harper appears. And yes -- someone picked box #8, pack #3. Tentative congratulations to lridgey, who takes the contest lead away from magneto2. I feel bad for magneto2, who looked to be a lock to win, but I'm kind of glad that lridgey is in the running, because I mistakenly posted earlier that lridgey was the tiebreak winner (with an impressive prediction of 101 Dickey pitches), when actually magneto2 was the tiebreak winner, whose prediction of 99 came first. So anyway, lridgey is now on the hook for the contest win, with three packs left. I'm unlikely to get another base Harper, but there is always the chance of a Harper auto or Harper parallel in the remaining packs. However, nobody picked packs 4 or 5, so the only danger to lridgey comes from the very last pack of the break. I might just wait until tonight to open the final pack, to heighten the drama.
Box #8, pack #4

Comments: I don't think I've seen Beavan or Barney before in this break. Always nice to see some new stuff in the last couple of packs. Okay, I'll wait until tonight to bust the last pack.
So lridgey wins if there is no Harper, motu79 wins (by tiebreak) if any Harper appears in the last pack. Good luck, and I'll be back later tonight.

Comments: No drama in the last pack. Just4cards wins the "worst pack" contest and will be receiving a box filled with junk wax. Lridgey wins the Harper contest and will receive $50 in BV from this break. I will be contacting each backchannel to settle up.

Box #8 grade: D
Comments: The box started out with a lot of promise but then reverted to the duds I've seen all break long. It was clearly my second best box of the break, but I didn't get my investment back.

Case break grade: D
Comments: I paid $1719.95 for this case and probably got 70% back in value. That's a loss of about $500. Even had I hit a Harper auto I'd have been way behind. I do not recommend busting this product at current prices. In fact, prices are likely never to be low enough (say $1350) to justify a purchase. The card design is nice, and there are some good subjects, but you can get them more cheaply as singles. If you must break cases (like me), find another product. The silver lining for me is that I got just one case, and I can now buy singles to complete sets.

Thanks, everyone, for participating in the contest, and I'm looking forward to 2012 BC in the early Fall.

Sorry the break was not memorable. I thought I might have a chance in the contest but it didn't happen. I have not opened a case or a full box of this product and pulled Bubba Starling base auto and Dylan Bundy base auto. But I have also pulled a few duds in there. Do you plan on busting Bowman 2012?

I bought 4 boxes as well and they were duds. Now 2010 those were loaded. I almost pulled a complete rainbow of Alex Rodriguez/ Evan Longoria I am only missing #d/25. I thought I would go for my first rainbow since I pulled the 1/1.

I am waiting for 2012 to come out before I buy anymore but the sad thing is my LCS has 2 cases of this on his shelf and no-ones buying them.

Now in 3-4 years we will see these cards be in high demend becuase somebody else will be a beast. Sad thing it wont be anything you or I pulled, but then.....

(05-01-2012 09:46 PM)magneto2 Wrote: Sorry the break was not memorable. I thought I might have a chance in the contest but it didn't happen. I have not opened a case or a full box of this product and pulled Bubba Starling base auto and Dylan Bundy base auto. But I have also pulled a few duds in there. Do you plan on busting Bowman 2012?

I would like to, but I need to save up for Chrome and Draft, which I bust every year. I'm sure I'll follow someone else's break; it sounds like an exciting product.